Creating a Chart with jQuery Flot and ASP.NET Web API

By Brij Mohan

This article explains how to display interactive charts with Flot jQuery plugin and ASP.NET Web API. Flot is an open source Javascript plotting library produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client-side. We’ll get data from database using ASP.NET Web API and use it to display chart.

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3. For simplicity, we are taking same app to consume web api, create new action in Home controller, add view without layout. 4. Download Flot, Add new flot folder in Scripts and Add flashcanvas folder and jquery.flot.min.js, excanvas.min.js files from the downloaded folder, include Flot’s Javascript files in the page, Make sure jquery is already included before float js file.